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Intimation.

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La.,

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FINE

BUILDINGS.

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FOR

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CHILDREN.

SMART

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From $6.75 pair

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To $11.50 pair

DAINTY SHOES

FOR

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EVENING

WEAR.

THE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 3 1000

to Let.

TO LET.

IN No. 6, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

Officer and Godowa,

In No. 5, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Victorie Building, Rooms suitable for Offices.

ROOMS in Codexe Chambers, No. 31. WYNDHAM STREET. Apply 'tome

DAVID SASSOON à 00, La... Hongkong, 15th September, 1999.

TO LET.

THE KORBA OF 70-DAY AND TC-MORROW.

I-THE SPELL OF THE MORNING CALM.

BY W. J. JONES.

To the masses of those who are working out the dentinjen of nations in the West, Koren bas

the placid indifference is people to hasten ed its dissolution, for there is no disguising the

mant demands of modern progress bar hasten.

Edtering the Daidamon, or East Gate, ag | méthods be faulty, there is a perlatence about Prong-yang one's olfactory senses are tried the street hawkers which is particularly con- to the utmost. Tas stench, which granted vidcing. They all the air with harsh cries all the visitor is probably the most powerful thing | day long, and far into the night their volços of its kind extant, and its existence can only be can be heard in ascending or descending accounted for by the presumption that it is scale announcing to the sleeping popula "sicred"--so many objectionable" enditions tion that they have vegetable ar fruit for are tolerated murely for this wason in the | wala. In the Japanese portion of Scoul-prac:

tichly self a small city with a Japanese pope lation of over 20,000-night in turned into day to the summer-time, the people leaving their houses to escape the heat and mosquitoes, aud bolding high carnival through the streets. These are the fruit-seller's best patrons, and one after the one tha molay (baik wares to the through the crowd dispensing their wares to the witling purchaser.

been unconsidered territory except on theses. But th. Koreau's sias against saaltation Deyer end. In the more conservative portios occasions when the constant friction of com of the country dead bodies are retained in the feting interests upon the buffer State has kind houses of relatives for weeks while a suitable led the flanie of warfare. Appropriately do place of burial in being decided upon. The 138. signaled "The Land of the Meroing Calm deliberations are not marked by any undue haite, though death may have been caused by highly infectious disease. Asa matter of fact smallpox is a" welcome guest in the house of the average lower-class Korean, who is con vinced that the only certain way of sacoring Immunity from the disease is by having it, One of the scenes of greatest activity-and this can be bast sean at Pyongyang-is wash ing day, Noir by the banks of the river thousands of women sit and mercilessly be tour their soiled clothes with a wooden club. This is the primitive style approved in Eastern countries. The water is muddy and the banks of

LODOWN, No-4. PRAVA, Kennedy Town.

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MODREENAGH.

fact that politically the country is in extremia But in Koren zvln apathy has a pathetic attrac tiveness. It is a land upon which the civilising THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST 1 and has been laid so lightly as to scarcely leave MENT & AGENCY CO-LD. the sense of contact, and where the policy of Hongkong, 22nd October, 1999..

1730 | Faisser faire has been reduced to a fine art. The history of Korea proved that it might have bean famous, Figsbes of military genius and short periods of capable administration have given promise of a reputable career, but the in test was fleeting, and, like the 120me ol Alice's acquaintance, the public were quite incapable of sustaining a steady strait, és any given direction,, and relapsed into the som- solent state from sheer copei. As a result of this inherent indifference a more enterprising people has determined that outside pressure shall be brought to bear to galvanise, the

DWELLING HOUSE, to Let

partly furnished."

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JARDINE, MATHESON &

Hongkong, 1st September, 190g.

TO LET.

at

Peak,

CO., LTD.

[234

OFFICES facing

KING'S BUILDING, our October, present in occupation of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld.

country into activity. Hence the morning calm has been replaced by the evening storm, which threatens to wreck the whole slender fabric uppy which Korean affairs have biberio de pended. The wheels of civilisation move slowly, although eventually they may grind ex [463 ceeding small, and if Korea bax lost her inde pendence she has not lost her distinctiveness.

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TO LET.

FFICES and ROOMS on the

and

Floor of No. 14, Des Vœux Road

Central (formerly occupied by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co.).

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THE COMPRADORE DEPARTMENT,

E. D. Sassoon & Co

Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 11th September, roog. (128

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& MORRISON HILL, niso

NOFFICES MI NO. 2 PEDDER STREET.

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Mean, JARDINE, MATHESON

& Co., LTD. Hongkong, 39th May, 1009.

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The most comfortable and reliable Children's Shoes ever produced.

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ALEXANDRA

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“ajth October, 1908

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Entimations.“

YUEN HING,

No. 4, D'AQUILAR STREET.

FACTORY SWATON

See

The people are a unique race, and are proud of it. The lofiskible regulations of mozicipat government will inevitably compel them to put their-house-in order, and the aspect of the country will change. But the Korean is supe

the river are stick-with-clay, but this-is-evi dently a matter of small importance. The river is the general wash-tub, and if the clothes be put through the process described they must according to all accepted ideas be clean. The Kereas shops and stalls and particularly small, but they are covered with a heterogeneous as sonment of articles. So far as the require

ments of the Korean are concerned his shops are miniature "Whiteley's." The streets are narrow, and are thronged at all hours of the day and night. It would seem that many of the in- habitants dispense with sleep altogether. There is no semblance of orderia traffic. As is the case in most cities in China outside the foreign settle meuls the bullock waggon jostles the rikisha,and the rikisha squeezes the pedestrian into the sulter. One remarkable thing about Koreans and even Korean children is that they evince Do curiosity regarding the movemaate of "foreigners." They are particularly dignified and self-contained. They have something better to do than to crowd round the occasional tourist who wanders into their midst. When one is familiar with the irritating inquisitive

rior to all such considerations. He has the dignity of kings and implicit faith in tradition and the direction it has given for his guidance through the ages. Custom has decreed that be shall wear a ridiculous bead-covering of woven pig's bristles—a modification of the shovel hates of a large section of the Japanese, the whole community from the Superintendent of -and he will probably go on wearing it despite Police to the ragged army of juvanilo vagrants the establishment of the reign of reason and taking a keen interest in his business, the enlightenment. His is not as imitative oature change is an agreeable one, and the day of frock-coats and coloured waist; coats in Korea is far distant.

THE REAL KOREA.

UP AN ALLEY-WAY.

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MEN AND WOMEŇ, Although the custom is passing an liberal ideas are gradually being assimilated, the women of Korea are kept behind the scenes in the home circle, the higher the women's sphere the more complete being her seclusion. High- class indies are never seen in the streets, and those of the middle class invariably have their faces partially covered by the changot, or light green cloak, the sleaves of which hang down

over the shoulders unused. The explanation of this remarkable fashion is that to the past, when the husbands went farth to fight they

wore this cloak, which was credited with

and

possessing superaatural qualities giving the wearer immunity from the swords ballets of the enemy. The girls and women of the humbler classes do coolie

work in the streets and are remarkably clever at balancing heavy burdens upon their heads, picking their way through the crowded thoroughfares without lifting a hand to steady the load they may bà carrying. One nad not remain long in the country to discover that the Koreanisa veritablemass of inconsistency. The students display a knowledge of learning greatly beyond the average, while the men generally a re bealthy and intelligent, and had they been ambi tious should have gone to the front amongst the nations of the East, But Korea has never with is the span of modera history possessed a soul she could call her own. China and Japan have besten the track along which her 'poople bave. had to proceed, and the administrators of the country have never had sufficiant easrgy.or spirit to demand, tan right to direct their own affairs. Witch all his languor, however, the Korean is a particularly agreeable person.. Ha is the polished gentleman in the setting of

the savage. He is one of Nature's cheerful spirita Mark Tapley who goes whistling through life despite the multiplication of his misfortunes. He is the victim of his own good- nature and is content to sil unconcernedly on his boundary fence and witness the robbery of his estates. It is pleasure to visit Korea if only to meet the Korean himself, for he is the happy- 80-lucky, good-tempered simpleton who, whils entirely oblivious" of his own laterests uncons sciously contributor to the pleasure of others, His placid, uncomplaining spirit in the midst of his troobles síts upon him likaa banadiction, and he has no quarrel with aither: the past. present, or future. In the march of progress he has gone under as other reactionarios have. done. It is the inevitable fate of those who decline to move with the procession in the kaas race struggle which makes power its objective. -Japan Chronicla,

The conditions of living in the cities are little, if any, superior to those of the Chinese. The tests are punctured with narrow lanes flanked by evil-smelling hovels. In this atmosphere the poorer classes of Koreans are raised, and the majority appear to thrive, though zymo- tic diseases carry off many of the work and unlucky. The villages along the railway route are dirty and unattractive. The low-roof ed shacks are well-thatched, but pae shudders as he realises that millions of microbes of ar sorted varieties must be lurking in the mud doors. It is authoritatively stated that Korean' law has hitherto directed that the lower the roof the lower shall be the taxation imposed, and those who find it expedient to save at every possible point sometimes enclose sa little air space in their dwellings that jo the warm, weather they are compelled to sleep outside.. But the people carry their heavy burden of trouble with a light heart, and even the dirty, naked children playing about the villages, dabbling in the filthy mud-pools, and testing the melons' attached to the runners which literally cover the roof, are the picture of coo- tentment. Happiness is after all measured by environment, and the Korean children would not change places with the delicately. burtured off.pring of Western parentage. in packet of 10 cents each The fact that their pleasures are so easi ly found in no way limits the scope of their

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villages are merely planted in some abellared spot, and the dwellings are disposed promis cucu ly like currants in a pudding, only with more prodigality. The hute are unique, some- thing like the Zulu, kraals, and show but little | Gärden Boats with wooden soles sad thick Limited, whence delivery may be obtained

As soon as the boundaries of Koras have bren paused, noe is greeted with a set of ea- (408 tirely new conditions. It is made manifest at the outset that the Korean farmer knows how to grow rice-no one can teach him anything in this respect.

When the crude imple- meals with which he tills the soil are taken into consideration it will be admitted that he works miracles, Men and women, boys and girls, toil in the fields from daylight till dusk, and the rich green expanse of grain is a tribute of their industry 'despite the conservatism which is apparent in their methods of agriculture. The farmer carries his wooden plough on bis back to and from the scene of his labours, and leads the spare tired' donkey or the staunch bollock by the head stat pr.nose ring. Left 10 his own devices, he is the most-con- firmed of philosophers. He is an optimistic Don Quixote tilting against the wind-milla of Fate. When the rice is being trans. planted, he ir stimulated in body and soul by singers and story-tellers engaged to bearten the proceedings Work, is carried on to the rhythm of the voices, and so long as the song or story lasts there is no cessation of labour. When the rice, is being gathered in a band armed with par-splitting instruments is entertained at the house of the farmer and dis peases weird music. Still if the farm bendi are satisfied no one has cause to complain.objoyment. There is no building scheme-the They are paid at the rate of about ninepence a day, and are entitled to something in the nature of luxury. A considerable portion of the land of Korea is unfit for cultivation. Viewed from the tea the country appears to be one succes sion of mountain chains, each one evertopping. that immediately in front, Travelling inland the discovery it made that the configuration of the country changes but slightly, and while some of the lower slapes of the bills are terrac

A FOOH BUSINESS MAM, The Korean indulges in "sqasesiog," as do ed and cultivated, agricul ure is chiefly confined to the expansive valleys near the railway line, all his neighbours in the East; he must do this WEIGHT CARRYING EXTRAORDINARY. to propitiate his conscience. But although he What the Korean can accomplish in the is slow in making up his miad-pitifully slow carrying-of-bosvy-Inads-is-ieconceivable sometimes-bis-word-onca-given-standé-as-a- A'most from their infancy boys of the lower sacred contract, and he will not attempt to. classes are provided with the figgy, a bandy sbirk commercial obligations; at least, that frame, upon which the burden is supported, and is the reputation he generally bolds is the bey baunt the stations and coroors of streets East amongst European merchants. How in thousands, ready to carry anything from a ever, his idea of 'doing business are peculiar, pound of tea to a cabin trunk. The men's and it is evident that the faculty of reason- powers of endurance are remarkable, and they ing is often lacking. It is not surprising are born to bard work, even if a large proper that the country has been allowed to slip tion ara d sposed to void it when possible. The out of the grasp of its own people-people average farmi coolie bar no difficulty in com- with simple, unsophisticated satures, upon plejeg forty miles day after day with a short which all the world might vamp at will. With rest is between, and can keep up with bis home quite a number of Korean merchantaihe whole- Jogging along over a 24 hours' journey, Many sale disposal of goods means an extra charge. can walk 30 miles per day, with a load of from per article. It ope, let us say basket, cost so 50 lbs, to 200 lbs., and it is on record that on sen, then four should cost too sen and eight Dno ocassion & çoolis carried a box registered 150 380, because there was so much more on the weichbridge at 480 lbs.. up a hill a mile trouble involved in making four and "eight. and a half in length. His lemuneration for The absurdity of this has frequently been re- this task was 15 sen, and this be accepted with presented to shopkeepers, but they seem to be profate thanks as it was five sen in excess of utterly incapable of doing business in anything his legitimate fare. But apparently he confines like a practical manner. Soms Intle timis ngo

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advance on those of the sami-savage races, la his house. as in everything else, the Korean with the displays a disinclination 10 move times

his waiking power to his own, territory. Few the merchants of the various manofactorlog Korcats a. found even in åntong, while if towns were asked to send sampins of parcelain one be discovered in Japan, he is considered

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Against Bills-of-Lading countersigned by the Undersigned;

Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice to the contrary be given before TO. DAY.

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods, have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the and Nov, 1909, will be subject to rent

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be:- examined on the 1st Nov, 190g, at 3 P.M.

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ONSIGNEES of Cargo, árs káréby Informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and or exten; hasarddur Godowns' of the Hongkong "and" Kowloon Wharf – and Godowa 1: Copy Lad, whence and/or from the wharyus : delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admittää after the Goods"

and silk to the Indanrial Department authori: LACE and EMBROIDERIES a speciality: have left the Godowns, and all Goods rimus

ties that Korean 'industries might be advertised

at the Tokyo Exhibition in 1919. After long deliberation the merchants came to the conclu

ODOURS AND oddities,

tion that it would sot, be wise to exhibit, Ideas of saltation in Korea are by no meaor believing that if they would never see them commendable, In the native quarters-and again. The Department thereupon purchased outside the main thoroughfares most of the selection of articles and they are to be stored quarters are nativo-the streets are covered Lustil the date of the Exhibition. The business with a thick costing of rubbish of that in: | Instinct is warped and enterprise' is nukoown. 'describablą: kind which exhales "an'!: odebr. The people are simplicity) itself, except the

· comment 15" tha” mejority of constrin!' dans of vikialia-men, who have evidently been adhéited- Sure, and some of those went, of that" port list a more progressive school? But WF" thile t

TABLE LINENS, SERVIETTES and HOUSEHOLD' LINENS.

Ing undelivered after the 4th Novamber, will be subject to rent. “

“All Claimă against the Stekmer minst be pre- lented to the Undersigned, ok, or before the rith November, or they will not be recognised;

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods, to be left in the Goldwns, where they will SPRAAKmland on the 4th Novemba, WE AT ANG

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